They can't be idiots of the year: the year ain't over yet...
As if paranormal investigators didn't have a hard enough time already, what with never being able to prove the existence of ghosts on any of their tv shows, now a group of them have destroyed a rich piece of Louisiana history by setting fire to a 160 year old plantation. Everyone knows the way to make ghosts appear is by setting fir to the building.
The suspects told authorities that they snuck into the Lebeau Plantation in order to investigate claims that the building was haunted. I seen the ghosts my own self!
Unfortunately for everyone, many news outlets reported that these ghost hunters had more in common with Shaggy and Scooby than with Fred and Velma, because instead of actually solving any mysteries they just got wrecked on cheap weed and cheaper beer. Cheep weed exists? Who knew?
Then they accidentally set fire to the building. Hey, Vern. You see what I see? No, gimmie some more of that cheep weed. Now I see it.
By the time police showed up to the plantation at around 2am, the building was fully engulfed in flames. All 7 men were arrested and charged with arson, burglary and criminal damage over $50,000.
Put them in an electric chair on trickle charge for a couple of days.
This is devastating loss to the community," Fire Chief Thomas Stone said. "It's a fire chief's worst nightmare."
Fortunately, there were no casualties in the blaze, aside from the enjoyment of a historical location by future generations."
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11/24/2013 10:53 ||
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G-d damn them. I don't have the heart to read more now, but if they aren't hipster carpetbagger muthabastids I'll eat a hi-hat. On the bright side, one can imagine prompt poetic justice in a sane parallel universe.
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The idiot of the years is the US taxpayer. These guys don't even rate to the stupidity we the voting taxpayer are allowing to happen in this country. But like those dopers looking for ghosts, we are getting what we deserved. Now we have to hope we can survive the change.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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Feed them to the 'gators.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man ||
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Are you sure it was not chief Thomas Stone dressed as a ghost who set the fire? It is always the first person shaggy and scooby meet that is the real villain.
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#2 These guys don't even rate to the stupidity we the voting taxpayer are allowing to happen in this country.
When you're right, you're right. I'd still like to strap these cats to an unlit bonfire and let 'em sweat for a while, before drowning them in the freezing river. I like rickety old buildings.
The idiot of the week/month/year should be a group portrait of all of the useful idiots that agreed to that ghastly agreement with the mullahs in Iran.
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[An Nahar] The foreign minister of the Central African Republic on Saturday rejected international warnings that his impoverished, strife-torn country could be headed for genocide. "No, no, certainly not!"
World alarm has grown over the violence wracking the mineral-rich country since a March coup, with the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... , the United States and former colonial ruler La Belle France all recently cautioning the situation could degenerate into genocide.
But Foreign Minister Leonie Banga Bothy told local radio that the statements were not helping the situation in the country and could have a perverse effect.
"We can't speak of a genocide of an ethnic or social group," he said. "Such statements on an international level can lead people to believe there is an imminent danger and to arm themselves to prepare for this genocide. And that is not what we want.
"The security situation is worrying in certain regions of our country and in several areas of the capital. But a lot of bold and positive measures have been taken. And we hope that in the face of some of the results, we will be able to stabilize the situation in our country.
"To speak of pre-genocide or of genocide, I think this will have perverse effects on the population, which has already suffered a great deal and which at the moment does not need any additional paranoia."
The sprawling country of five million people with a history of coups and rebellions has been beset by strife since the Seleka rebel coalition ousted president Francois Bozize in March and put the country's first Mohammedan leader, President Michel Djotodia, in power in the mostly-Christian country.
The transitional government has little control over the rest of the country where gangs -- the remnants of successive rebellions, mutinies and insurgencies -- hold sway over a people facing atrocities, food shortages and the collapse of health care.
In parts of the country, fighting has broken out between mainly Mohammedan former rebels who seized power in March and militia groups set up to protect Christian communities, which make up about 80 percent of the population. Both churches and mosques have been razed to the ground.
In Bangui, killings have been blamed on ex-rebels of the Seleka coalition led by Djotodia before he dissolved it.
Violence in the city culminated on November 17 with the murder of a leading judge, who was bumped off by former Seleka forces, provoking festivities in which two civilians died.
To curb the unrest, Djotodia on Friday said he was re-instating a curfew in Bangui from 10:00 pm to 6:00 am and on Saturday evening, security forces could be seen on the major intersections of the capital.
The U.N. Security Council plans to vote in early December on a resolution that would allow the CAR's neighbors, the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and La Belle France to intervene.
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[An Nahar] Angolan police fired tear gas Saturday at hundreds of demonstrators who were protesting in the capital Luanda against the killing of two young opposition activists, an Agence La Belle France Presse journalist witnessed.
The demonstrators, some wearing T-shirts with the slogan "stop kidnappings and torture", were marching towards the Angolan capital's center when police moved in to disperse the crowd.
Opposition party Unita called the hartal rally over the deaths of two activists, who disappeared in May 2012 while organizing an anti-government protest.
After months of silence, Angola justice said last week that it had identified four suspects who had allegedly kidnapped and killed the two young men.
But information circulating on social networks claimed links to Angolan secret services.
Ruling party MPLA has condemned Unita's protest call, saying the opposition was seeking to create "chaos and anarchy".
Separately, another opposition party, Casa said that one of its activists was killed early Saturday by presidential security forces after he was tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for putting up posters backing young activists in Luanda.
"About 60 gunnies working with him are still held by police and we are trying to obtain their release," said Casa president Abel Chivukuvuku.
Police were not immediately available for comment.
In the past two years, young Angolans have become increasingly critical of President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who was last year re-elected for a further five years after 33 years at the head of the oil-rich nation.
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I'm thinking China wouldn't dare do this if we had a strong president with his eye on the ball, a president who hadn't weakened the US both financially and morally. What does Obama do about it? He sends Carolyn Kennedy to be Ambassador to Japan. Sickening.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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His-own "Red Line"-busting, OBAMA-IS-A-HELLUVA-LOUSY-PRO-US-NATIONALIST-BUT-ONE-HELLUVA-OUTSTANDING-ANTI-US-GLOBALIST = BE PREPARED OR READY TO SEE THE US [Sssshhh ... CCCCC covertly intentionally] GIVE UP EAST ASIA + 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC TO [fellow OWG "Co-Superpower"] CHINA.
The Bad Econ, Sequester, Shutdown + post-Shutdown [Debt Ceiling] US can no longer econ afford to intervene or wage war - OWG AMERIKA = 1945 POST-ATOMIC BOMBINGS JAPAN + EMPEROR HIROHITO = THE NATION HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO "ACCEPT THE UNACCEPTABLE, BEAR THE UNBEARABLE, TOLERATE THE INTOLERABLE ...".
Becuz, ya know, 1945 JAPAN = 1940 VICHY FRANCE = PROUDLY SURRENDERING SINCE ... ...
To avoid war = SAVE WHATS LEFT OF TRADITIONAL PRE-OWG NATIONALISM + SOVEREIGNTY, Caroline Kennedy must work to come up wid a diplomatic solution/compromise that is mutually acceptable + permanent, not just one that only TEMPORARILY DELAYS MIL CONFLICT in the name of 2014 or espec the 2016 POTUS Elex.
Again, "post-US", "Mahanist" = OWG "Co-Superpower" CHINA wants "strategic access" into far Pacific = overseas "sole" Milbases for the PLA. China wants or desires ...
> Immediate or very-near-term sovereign reunification wid TAIWAN, AKA CHINA'S EQUIVALENT OF PEARL HARBOR/HAWAII [USPACOM].
> Desires the Senkakus/Diaoyus to protect its future TAIWAN Mil Hub. Think Midway, Wake Island, Palmyra, French Frigate Shoals in EASTPAC as per Pearl Harbor
> Safe to say China will likely also demand the demilitarization of US-JSDF on Okinawa + Yonaguni, + possibly US forces in Guam or both Guam + Hawaii.
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Lest we fergit, MSM-NET = China wants both Guam + Hawaii, iff it can take or get 'em; + 1/2 of CONUS-NORAM for "living space". It would like the US to fall back or be contained to Hawaii + EASTPAC, US West Coast come 2020.
IOW, subjectively speaking China taking over 1/2 of the Pacific, e.g. GUAM-WESTPAC, is poten ONLY THE BEGINNING OF A BIGGER OR LARGER STRATEGIC "LONG MARCH".
"GREAT GAME" > Ally, Enemy, or Non-Aligned, iff the US = any "great power" can't or won't defend its interests + territories, etc. some other Nation-State(s) will rise + voluntarily or forcibly take it for their own.
Don't get me wrong - I like many many things about the Chinese people, their history + culture, etc. + Other in Asia, BUT SUCH WILL NOT DETER OR PREVENT THE SO-CALLED "GREAT GAME" FROM OCCURRING REGARDLESS OF THE MERITS.
Lest we fergit II, + as ilustrated by the new interim deal between the P5+1 + Iran, THE US-VS-CHINA ONLY COMPETITION IN ASIA-PACIFIC [World?] HAS NOW DEVOL INTO THE US-VS-CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-ISLAM.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [SMH] CHINA THREATENS MILITARY ACTION OVER DISPUTED EAST CHINA SEA ISLANDS.
* WAFF > [NYT] PLA AIR FORCE [PLAAF] CONDUCTS FIRST PATROL IN AIR DEFENSE IDENTIFICATION ZONE NEAR JAPAN.
* SAME > JAPAN REJECTS CHINA'S CLAIM TO AIR RIGHTS OVER DISPUTED ISLAND.
versus
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [WSWS.org] AMERICAN THINK-TANK ENVISAGES [US-Allies] BLOCKADING CHINA WID MISSLES, i.e. Land-based LR ASBMS/ASMS in forward-deployed East Asian staging areas stretching in arc from Japan + ROK to the PHIL + Malaysia-Indonesia.
[Dawn] The editor of a top Indian investigative news magazine faced police questioning Saturday over allegations that he sexually assaulted a young woman colleague in a case that has snowballed into a major scandal.
The allegations hit the headlines due to the prominence of Tarun Tejpal, 50, the founder and editor of the magazine, Tehelka, known for its hard-hitting probes into sexual violence against women, corruption and other lawbreaking.
Police in the holiday state of Goa, where the woman was allegedly assaulted twice by Tejpal, began an inquiry Friday into the incident.
A four-member team of Goa police arrived in New Delhi on Saturday "to collect evidence and question the concerned persons", a Delhi police official told AFP.
"We will fully cooperate with the Goa team," the official said on condition of anonymity.
The preliminary enquiry, also known as a First Information Report, allows police to gather evidence in a case and take a suspect into custody for questioning.
Tejpal announced Wednesday he was quitting his editorial functions at Tehelka for six months after the woman's complaint was leaked to the media.
In the written complaint, of which AFP has a copy, the woman said she had known Tejpal since she was a child and described him as a "father figure".
She said the alleged assault took place inside a lift at a hotel where the magazine held a conference last month billed as India's premier intellectual event.
The woman also alleged that when she protested, Tejpal told her "this was the easiest way for you to keep your job".
In Panjim, the director general of Goa police Kishen Kumar said officers had obtained CCTV footage from the venue and were analysing it.
He would not comment on media reports that Tejpal's arrest was imminent.
In a statement sent to AFP on Friday, Tejpal offered to cooperate with police, saying he would present "all the facts of this incident" to them.
Tejpal, who has since hired a top lawyer to represent him, told The Economic Times in a report published Saturday the incident was "consensual" and "fleeting".
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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